Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...staff. Salaries have not increased since 1906. The present scale in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences being for Instructors $1,200-$1,500; Assistant Professors $2,500-$3,000; Full Professors $4,000 to a maximum of $5,500 a year. A fifty per cent, increase, which would absorb the entire income from twelve million dollars, is no more than our teachers should receive...
...Department plan permits a college student to absorb the courses which have hitherto been included in the curricula of the ground schools main tainted at Princeton, M. I. T. and elsewhere...
...syllabus represents the epitome of "knowledge served on a silver platter." By its use, the average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...
...made extensive experiments upon the relative power of matter to absorb sound, and was a specialist in the acoustics of buildings and rooms...
These are only two of the many requirements that must be met. The returning undergraduate will be more mature, more intelligent, and more whole-hearted in what he demands. It is the University's opportunity to utilize his enthusiasm, to absorb his interest so completely that the closing years of his training at Cambridge may be turned to good account...